The people of Buffalo, New York, on Sunday mourned the victims of the supermarket shooting that left 10 people dead and three people injured last year, The Hill reported.
The City of Buffalo held a moment of silence at 2:28 p.m. which was followed by the tolling of bells in remembrance of the victims killed in the racist attack in the supermarket.
“The racially motivated mass shooting shook our community to its core. It was the day the unthinkable happened,” Mayor Byron Brown said about the commemoration.
The gunman, Payton Gendron, pleaded guilty in November to crimes including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate, a charge that carried an automatic life sentence.
In February, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Prior to the shooting, Gendron uploaded a manifesto to the internet, warning of “white genocide”, citing low birthrates among people of European heritage across the globe, and higher birthrates among non-white populations.
A document posted online by the suspect detailed his initial plans weeks before the shooting.
US President Biden wrote an op-ed in USA Today published Sunday on the one-year anniversary of the Buffalo shooting, urging Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
“Jill and I visited both communities, spending hours with hundreds of family members who lost pieces of their soul and whose lives will never be the same,” Biden wrote. “They had one message for all of us: Do something. For God’s sake, do something.”